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Posted by Mike Kujbida on 04/12/06 10:29
ushere wrote:
> Mike Kujbida wrote:
>> ushere wrote:
>>> have a client dvd disc coming from one of these cameras. anyone know
>>> what format it records in and whether it's importable to vegas 6?
>>>
>>> tia
>>>
>>> leslie
>>
>>
>> You lucky guy you. Now you get to experience the "joy" of the
>> miniDVD format.
>> Or as most of us call it, the editing format from hell :-)
>> According to the specs on the Pansonic site at
>> http://tinyurl.com/kj52e, it can use DVD-RAM, DVD -R or DVD -RW at
>> recording speeds of XP, SP or LP. XP: 9 Mbps / VBR, SP:5 Mbps / VBR,
>> LP: 2.5 Mbps / VBR. Audio is AC3.
>> If the client used DVD-RAM and your computer's DVD drive can handle
>> it, you're OK. If your drive can't handle it, you'd better hope
>> they used either of the DVD- formats - and remembered to finalize
>> it!!
>> As long as you have at least Vegas 6.0c, you're all set as Sony
>> finally added the feature to handle this media natively (video & AC3
>> audio). It's under File - Import - DVD Camcorder Disc. Vegas 6.0d
>> added scene detection so start/stops were recognized (as opposed to
>> one long file).
>> Have fun editing :-(
>>
>> Mike
>> (who's enjoying spring at long last!!)
>>
>
> and i'm thinking it's time we started cutting some firewood....
>
> haven't got the disk yet, it's in the post. hopefully they finalised
> it, but if not, what are my options?
>
> have dvd-ram drives - i actually use a couple of dvd ram disks as temp
> backups for docs and the like. simple drag and drop is quite useful to
> dvd....
>
> enjoy your spring, cause you'll get winter somewhere down the track
> ;-P
>
> leslie
If the disk wasn't finalized, I think you're SOL as you'd probably need the
original camcorder to do that. I stand to be corrected in anyone else knows
better though.
Good thing you have a dvd-ram drive. It just might come in handy for this
project :-)
Keep in mind that, because it's already in mpeg-2 format, you won't be
getting frame accurate editing and any recompressing will affect the
quality. Stick to a high bitrate for a new encode and it shouldn't be too
bad.
This might be a time to look into something like Womble or Video ReDo which
are supposed to be better at this than Vegas.
I'm loving spring so far. Just not looking forward to the 30°+ and 100%
humidity days of summer :-(
Mike
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